Network Analyst
Location: US, NY, New York
Department: Tech - Network

Company profile:
Pico is a financial technology services firm and an agency only broker dealer established under the business principles of providing distinguished products and services, delivering innovative and pragmatic technology solutions, and offering significant market structure and regulatory expertise.Pico is constantly searching for people who we are able to share a "beverage" with and talk about their passion in life and technology. We favor those with a quest for knowledge, who can excel in a small team-based, self-motivated environment while checking their ego at the door, over pure technical acumen. Our employees come largely from bulge bracket capital markets firms who want to scale down to meet with Pico's scaling up. We want out of the box thinkers that do "things" better and do not settle for anything less.

Job description:
Pico is looking for a talented and experienced Network Analyst to join our Network Operations team. As a Network Analyst, you will play a critical role in building out our ever expanding data center domain and global network backbone by provisioning new equipment and configuring the network to meet our changing needs. You’ll tackle interesting and unusual problems by working with other staff, customers and/or vendors to troubleshoot and drive the problems to resolution.To succeed in this team-oriented and fast paced environment, you will need to leverage your communication and organizational skills. As the ideal candidate, you should be passionate, creative, flexible, have a strong work ethic, and enjoy solving thorny technical issues. You should have a strong desire to learn, grow, and a commitment to rapidly improving your skillset. You should enjoy sharing your skills and knowledge with your teammates and the rest of the organization. You should also like to have fun, as we believe that enjoying life both inside and outside of work is crucial to success in both areas.Responsibilities:•             Work with the Data Center Operations and other cross functional teams groups for various client onboarding and internal engineering requests according to requests and document work.•             Modify network configuration in response to service requests and update tickets.•             Work with vendors to diagnose and resolve network device software and hardware problems.•             Work with the NOC to troubleshoot operational issues related to the network.•             Work with other Network Engineers to adapt design patterns to new situations and hardware/software combinations.

Requirements:
Qualifications:•             2-3 years production network engineering or operations experience, preferably on a high volume data center network for the financial sector.•             Knowledge/Experience of the following protocols/standards: 802.1Q, MSTP, LLDP, IPv4, IPv6, VRRP, UDP, TCP, OSPF, BGP, PIM.•             Demonstrated experience managing and monitoring networks using open source software and working in a Linux/Unix environment.•             Demonstrated ability to manage priorities and complete complex assignments with little supervision.•             Demonstrated ability to exercise good judgment in accordance with change control and other operational best practices.•             Experience automating routine tasks via scripting or other tools is not required, but preferred.•             Experience with firewall, VPN concentrator configuration and troubleshooting preferred.•             Strong communication and organization skills.•             Strongly self-motivated and eager to solve problems.•             Fantastic attitude and pride in workmanship.

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